Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

27 reviews

thehungryartist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Eating disorder

Minor: Death of parent

mundanemacchiatos's review

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Vomit and Domestic abuse

melissacushman's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

raymariereads's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Physical abuse

leannecs's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Would not classify this as a book about body positivity. A lot of mention of specific weight, clothing size, body comparison and fat shaming. Weight loss is heavily celebrated throughout the book.

olivinebranch's review

If you're looking for a fat-positive book, this isn't it. Unbelievably triggering and ultimately felt like it affirms fatphobia, unhealthy relationships with food/dieting and exercise, & weight loss surgery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 This book makes me hungry. It also makes me wish I would've grown up eating not only more diverse foods but also eating healthier foods and learning how to cook. It's wild how even though our lives, families, and cultures are so different we have things in common like enjoying junk food and not being taught how to cook and finding it hard to work out and eat right when there's so much stress and so much going on.

I appreciate that even though she did end the book thinner, it wasn't an unhealthy or preachy kind of thinner. She finally found what made her happy and feel empowered and in control with the caveat that everyone is different and we all want to improve no matter where we're at. I also just really enjoyed learning so much about Pakistani culture and food.

Also how wild that she knows Shaun T?? Why is that something that stood out so vividly to me 😅😂 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Medical content, Islamophobia, and Eating disorder

nordstina's review

medium-paced

1.75

Rabia Chaudry's memoir Fatty Fatty Boom Boom focuses primarily on her relationship with food, her weight, and expectations of her family and community when it comes to her body. I have to say this comes with a major trigger warning for food-related issues. There is rampant anti-fat bias, actively comparing her body to others, descriptions of binge eating, disordered eating, extreme dieting, specific weight numbers, and very unhealthy relationship with food. It is a difficult read, and what was frustrating is she ends the book (not really a spoiler) happy with her not THAT fat body- even though she has cycled through many boughts of losing and regaining weight, her current body (achieved through aggressive cardio and restrictive eating) is her endgame. All is well and she seems at peace with her body. Call me cynical that this will not be the end of issues for her, as they do not feel remotely resolved emotionally. I was bummed out by this book- while I think Rabia has a strong voice, and I enjoyed reading about her legal work, her writing about body issues make me incredibly conflicted and triggered. Beware.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

ayesham11's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Animal death and Eating disorder

miss__manga__'s review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed the audio book of this. Rabia has such a lovely voice!

It’s important to note that this memoir could be incredibly triggering to those who may be struggling with food or weight. There are many instances of fat phobia and self depreciating talk. 

Overall, I really liked the writing style and I felt the descriptions of food and craving were wonderful. I loved the descriptions of her family, and how I learnt a lot about Pakistan through this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Classism, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Animal death

Minor: Bullying, Colonisation, Deportation, Cancer, Car accident, Death, and Domestic abuse